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concentration camp

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
concentration camp a detention site outside the normal prison system created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians. The term was first used to describe prison camps used by the Spanish military during the Cuban insurrection (1868-78), those created by America in the Philippines (1898-1901), and, most widely, to refer to British camps built during the South African War (Boer War) to confine Afrikaners in the Transvaal and Cape Colony (1899—1902). The term soon took on much darker meanings. In the USSR, the Gulag elaborated on... Read more
concentration camps
...the SS Death's Head formations, the concentration camp guards. From then on Eicke's Concentration Camp Inspection Office was responsible for...Concentration Camps until 1945. A standard concentration camp such as Dachau was divided into five... Read more
concentration camp
concentration camp Originally a place in which non-combatants...NAZI regime in Germany (1933–45) concentration camps became places in which to intern...Dachau, and Buchenwald (a forced labour camp where doctors conducted medical research...civilians perished. After the war many camp ... Read more

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